One viral article and now I feel like an imposter
I have been writing on Medium passively for a long time and boom suddenly one of the article went “sort of viral” — now I feel like an imposter!
Backstory
I have been blogging passively on Medium and my personal blog for a long time. I work full time at Google as a Senior Software Engineer and on areas like computational photography and Android Camera. And this used to be my consistent writing niche — Android Camera, Camera hardware, optimized algorithms and sometimes about a QR code library I maintain open source. By January 2022 I had like 64 followers and roughly a monthly income of 10$.
I was happy and content — as it would help me cover what I pay Medium for reading.
One evening after work, I was scrolling through my Medium feed and stumbled upon an article with following title
The Best Programming Language To Learn in 2022? — Google Lead Developer Explains
Given my background I was intrigued — Who’s this author? What’s their message to the readers?
The article is now deleted & I think the author was never a Googler either (I looked it up) — but everything aside, I hated the message he delivered. The author recommended “Python” as “the language…
